For more than a decade, the United Steelworkers and U.S. Steel have worked in a unique partnership as the Iron Ore Alliance to advocate for and promote Minnesota’s legacy of iron mining. This legacy ...

NASHWAUK, Minn. — A controversial $2 billion-plus mining project on Minnesota’s Iron Range that has weathered an economic recession, missed deadlines and payments, bankruptcy, changes in ownership, ...

I rode in a little plane from 1967 over the entire iron formation. I’d seen a lot of mining country, but never quite like this.

A version of this story first appeared on Minnesota Public Radio. Hundreds of people stood in a long line that snaked outside the offices of Mesabi Metallics in Nashwauk, Minnesota, last month, ...

NASHWAUK, Minnesota – Colossal rust-red barn walls rise out of the gravel and pine forest in this northern Minnesota town. A welder’s torch spits blue sparks. After more than two decades of sometimes ...

Western Australia has become the center of global mining attention after discovering the world’s largest known iron ore reserve. The find, estimated at 55 billion metric tons, is located in the ...